Warbird Information Exchange

Hi everyone.
My name is Oliver and I am new to your site. I mainly build helicopters.
I have been working onva huey diorama for the last 5 years. I have scratcbuilt the whole transmission out of brass as well as tail rotor shaft and a full engine
the dio shows a helo in maintenace surrounded by several scalfoldings.
I am almost done with it.
I will post few photos soon as well as my previous helo build of a 1/35 scale Russian M-4 Hound in a snow diorama.
Oliver

Here are a few photos of the build.
Oliver

Few more photos
I couldn't help noticing that few replies and interests on build tips....Is this commom pratice on this site?
Oliver

Hi Oliver, welcome to the board. That is some beautiful work on your Huey. I look forward to following your progress.

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Thanks
will keep updating progress
oliver

Impressive work!

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Simply amazing! My great Uncle would be proud! He was an Textron-Avco-Lycoming lead engineer / machinist that worked on final assembly. He pretty much oversaw and assembled almost every T53 turbine engine that came out of the Stratford plant.

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Thanks guys
Oliver
Here are few more.
The build looks like that today.

Wow - great work! I am always amazed by the level of detail on this scale that someone with talent and patience can achieve.

Tom P.

Thanks for the interest
Here are more photos.
Engine build
Oliver

few more photos



Oliver

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Looking great. Did you make the base for it too?

-Tim

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Yes made the base too